Associate Professor of Psychology & Director of the Lavender Lab, University of Maryland, College Park
Adjunct Associate Professor, American University
Adjunct Associate Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Brown University School of Public Health

Expertise: Licensed clinical psychologist; effects of social, psychological, and cultural determinants of health for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) individuals and racial/ethnic minorities as well as factors that promote their resilience; health disparities

Dr. Mereish completed his doctoral training at Boston College, a clinical psychology residency at Harvard Medical School, and a postdoctoral research fellowship at Brown University. His NIH-funded research program focuses on understanding the effects of social, psychological, and cultural determinants of suicide, substance use, and other health outcomes for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) and racial and ethnic minority youth and young adults as well as factors and interventions that promote their resilience. His work is community-engaged, leveraging multiple methodologies, including experimental, experience sampling, and qualitative methods. His work is informed by intersectionality theory and has a grounded commitment to social justice and health equity. His current NIH-funded study examines the prospective and daily impact of intersectional oppression-based stressors (e.g., discrimination, microaggressions) and structural oppression (e.g., structural racism and heterosexism) on substance use and mental health of LGBTQ youth of color. Dr. Mereish is also a licensed psychologist in the District of Columbia.

Pronouns: he/him
emereish@umd.edu